The book-to-movie business is kicking back into gear. Hoping for another Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, New Regency has just acquired Three Seconds, part of a bestselling Swedish crime novel series by Anders Roslund & Bonge Hellstrom. Shine will produce and they will set a writer quickly. In Three Seconds, an ex-con who works undercover for the Stockholm police is charged with breaking the Polish mob's stranglehold on amphetamine dealing in Sweden prisons. The ex-con gets himself arrested so he can infiltrate the mob in a maximum security prison. Beyond the fact his wife is unaware he's working undercover, the operative's challenge is to crack the ring and get out before he's exposed. The book is the fifth novel in the series, was named Sweden's top crime novel of 2009. The author team is intriguing, considering one's a former journalist, the other an ex-criminal.The book was published by Silver Oak. Regency's Michelle Kroes brought it in and Dan Wilson is supervising.
Aside from Three Seconds, a film option deal was made for Cutting For Stone, the Abraham Verghese novel optioned by Anonymous Content, and Warner Bros and CBS Films will try to turn Stephen King's novel The Stand into a feature. Given the spectacularly restrictive budget ceiling that has forced CBS Films to rely on forgettable tweener-budget films like The Back-Up Plan and Extraordinary Measures and given CBS Films no ... Read More »
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